Sanders, who narrowly lost the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, hosted a nationally televised town hall from the U.S. Capitol auditorium Monday to decry “the rise of oligarchy and collapse of the middle class.”

“Over the last 40 years, the middle class of this country has declined while oligarchy is on the rise!” Sanders declared.

“It’s so crazy, the rich right now, the greed,” Moore exclaimed.

Warren told the audience – roughly 1.7 million live viewers and about 550 at the event – that “this is an organized effort, just to simply take over the government.”

The goal, she claimed, is to “make the government work better and better for […]